Open Discussion – May 28, 2008

Oh sorry Jimmy I've got Apocalypes Now going on outside.

(Primer)
"It went nowhwere for you" got it.

Maybe I'll wait for it to come WAY down in price now.;-)

Haha Stephen. Email me offsite if you want some tales from the El Ron Hubbard side.

Yeah Jimmy the C, I'm totally aware of "Primer" I've wanted to see that but the dvd is still hovering around 19.99.
I don't support Netflix and don't rent anymore so I'm waiting for that dvd to come down in price and then I'm going to get it. Did you like it??

Has anyone seen the independent, Sundance winning sci fi drama "Primer"? It's about young guys who stumble upon a time travel method.

The movie seemed too clever by half, for me. Or, I admit it, maybe I'm too stupid by double, for this one. I never understood exactly what was happening, what the narrator was saying, who he was speaking to...I like a good cheaply made mindf*ck movie like Memento, but this just went nowhere for me.

The reviewers at Rotten Tomato seemed split--most thought it was ingenious, others thought it was pompous and done poorly. Any opinions here?

790,

He he he, no I am doing research on Scientology and a few details came up about him. So, I was wondering what his site looked like. To my horror, not only did Tom look insane in the Scientology 101 recruitment video, but this was just so fitting for a person who bad mouthed people who he calls the spectators (those who are not yet converted).

Meh... I'm sure I'll be approached by Scientologists again. I've been approached 6 times already. Last time I said, I'm with Tom, so don't bother. That made them turn around. :)

But that line about cellphones not working around his ego was sooo funny! The best thing I've read this week!! :)

It also happens when I am at the sweets section at any store. I am not kidding, people I talk to, if I am loosing them on the phone they always ask me if I am at the sweets section. Most of the time I am. See I can't eat peanuts so sweets have become a kind of a museum for me. I like to look but can't actually touch em. :(

MAJOR FIRE at Universal Happening NOW!

I have to ask Stephen how you came accross that site?
Were you trying to book a cruise for tomarrow, on Google and Google gave you some options?

I've heard that his ego blocks cell signals. If you stand to close you can't make a call... Wait maybe that's Warren Beatty. Hmmm
But that's just a ugly rumor...

I just found this and to be honest, it's a bit disturbing to watch.

http://www.tomcruise.com/

Yeah, I've never seen anyone THAT full of them selves... it's that or he's just got fired from Hollywood and he needs the attention.

But then he's scientoligy and so, I doubt he's the kind who needs the extra attention right? Yeeeaaahh riiiight!

Thank's Vic...

You know it would be strange if someone did a "Plan 9" movie that was many orders of magnitude better than the poor original. Give it a "Lifeforce" scary feel. Nobody would believe it.

"DTESS".... think a raw nerve got hit?? They should do their best to prove the opposite is true or does that take more money than civil action?? Science Fiction & Fantasy throughout its history has been high art and low art, it still makes better sense to spend $10.00 more on a better script or over all quality than to drop that same money into just special effects. Maybe that would kill SF/F movies but history doesn't bear that out, otherwise, in this day and age, nobody would have even heard of "The DTESS!!" It was the overall quality and the timing of its release that made it. Anyway, I think a remake would have been better timed back near the end of the cold war than today. They don't like it that you can't spoon feed people anymore imo.

good news megan fox will be back for transformers 2

Oh, sorry Vic, had a senior moment. :o)

Still, OMG that they would do that just over a post about DTESS.

you are probably right Vic,
I would still love to know more about those rumored reshoots .
If the rumors are true.

To quote Will Smith: Aw... hell no.

They're going for a solid, and no doubt higher-end PG-13 on this one.

There wouldn't be anything left of the film if they tried to drop it to PG - it's just not a PG story.

It's pretty common to see that in commercials up to about a month before the release date, doesn't mean anything special or sinister. Final cut just hadn't been rated at the time the commercial goes on air.

Vic

I saw an ad forHancock last night.
It said the film was not yet rated.
could they be trying to cut it to a PG rating?

Vic,
you could reserve coverage
until you either hear from friends who have seen it or until you have seen it yourself.

No, no... sorry I wasn't clear. It was the post I wrote about "Day the Earth Stood Still."

Vic

Fox threatened you because of a posting about Andromed Strain? OMG!!!

Well after Fox Legal threatened me over the last post I wrote I have more than half a mind to tell them to drop dead and not give that movie ANY coverage whatsoever.

Vic

Hey Vic, have you heard anything else about Day the Earth Stood Still? I'm really looking forward to seeing it and would like some type of update.

BTW, I saw the A&E movie Andromeda Strain. While it did have it's moments, the movie was just too far fetched for me; liked the original movie better.

Silent Running is an excellent movie and quite sad at the end, well, I felt sad for the robots on their own in deep space. aaahhh

Also Dark Skies was really good. Shame how that went.

Jae Senn have to apolgize for reading your post so quickly the first time that I thought you were referencing Roswell the WB show. Sorry about that...!

Well you couldn't see me as I was typing it.

{{If you ask me those 3 robots inspired the creators of WALL-E.}}

Nicey Nice 790, I want to congratulate you for posting comments about Pixar that didn't include the words @#&&#, +>#*~, or ?!#%#%º|!

old man, I haven't been following Babylon as closely as I could be. I'll look at getting some updates.

Also, I'll be doing a follow up on the Plan 9 story as I've exchanged some emails with the writer of the film. :-)

Vic

Also Jae Senn, I'm am aware of the ufo crashes you mentioned.
I have a few friends in the service and one of them one time told me (after he got out) that he was offered a chance to join a unit that had no name just a number. He later found out after turning it down that it was a group that deals with ET recovery.
And people had a prob with Indy 4,(lol).

Hey "So You Think You Can Dance" is on!!! Weeee.

If you can remember who the actor is that's in the film you could track down what film it is?

Ah Silent Running, yes I remember that film, Bruce Dern 1975 I believe.
Huey, Duey and Louie, were the names of the robots.
Yeah that was one of the only Sci-Fi films to even come out that year. Back then we didn't get a blockbuster every friday. If you ask me those 3 robots inspired the creators of WALL-E.

And yes Roswell had a good run. The (teenage angst) level was a little high for me.
A far superior show was "Dark Skies".
This show went into the Roswell incident face first and never looked back.
(It was quickly canceled when it started to build a loyal fanbase). Odd,,,, (S)

(S) is my mark of Sarcasum

790,

Yeah I know it sounds like Omega Man! But it isn't. Even my friends can't figure out any other movie that had that premise besides Omega Man. However, I've seen the re-runs on TV about 2 or 3 times already, but I guess I was too young then to know what the title was.

I just found out the title of another movie that stuck to my mind for all these years - Silent Running. I can always remember the scene when he knocked down one of the robots, and had to repair it while the other robot looked on. The two robots were so.. sentient.. like children or puppies. I remember watching it on TV when I was a kid, maybe around 4 or 5 years old. I cried when I saw the robot flinching during repairs, like an injured puppy.

"Roswell" was a good TV movie, based on the accounts of Jesse Marcel. With physicist and early civilian UFO investigator Stan Friedman openly calling for further declassification of the MJ-12 documents and exposure of the US government's knowledge of extra-terrestrial visitations, there's plenty of material in there (the Majestic documents) for movies about the "unknown lenticular aerodyne" crash before Roswell in 1941 that led to advances in nuclear physics, or the crash of three airships in New Mexico a year after Roswell that provided a mother lode of test materials - working aerodynes that were later tested and reverse-engineered in Project White Shot and Project Snowbird, and 16 dead EBEs for autopsy.

Any news kicking on "The Grays" or "Babylon A.D." ???

Read where "Enders Game" has been picked up by Marvel for comic book treatment.

Jae Senn, that does sound alot like the ending for Omega Man,,? But no red lights.hmm

Remember that film "Devils Rain". I think Shatner is in that one and also Travolta...
These cultists looked just like the freaks in omega man.
Hahaa. And I think there leader was Ernest Borgnine?
Pure 70's camp!

Boulders chasing people??? That's a new one!!

I remember these freaky trees chasing people, and the people had to throw these red bottles at the trees to set them on fire. I totally forgot what movie it was until a friend told me that it was called "Navy vs the Night Monsters", a.k.a. "The Night Stalkers". That was a cool movie and for a kid, scary as hell.

I recall this other movie that no one else seemed to remember. It's almost like the Omega Man, except that it's not really the end of the world IIRC. Just that this guy was aware of some evil mole people living underground and decided to kill them or something, and he goes hunting for them at night while riding a white buggy with a rifle that has a red spotlight affixed to it. Those creatures are afraid of light of any kind, including this red flashlight, so the hero would shine it on them before shooting them up. The movie ends with him mortally wounded and crashing his car at a fountain in the middle of a town square or something, and the scene gradually fades to day break and we see the water in the fountain has all turned to red with the hero dead in the water, and those night creatures are nowhere to be seen.

Yeah Vic,it was the weirdest thing, this family was out on a flat desert valley in there RV and they see this spec on the horizon and one of the guys whips out his binoculars and you see this boulder the size of a car rolling right at them (end over end) at about 20 mph.
Out of all sides, boulders start appearing and there all headed right at them. Of course the RV won't start.
(The film had kinda a Damnation Alley feel to it).
ANYWAY,++++++++++++++++++++++

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